E06564: Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, names *Narkissos (bishop of Jerusalem, S00148) as an exemplary virgin. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686.

Aldhelm, prose On Virginity, 32

Praeterea beatae memoriae Narcissum tam virginalis pudicitiae privilegio praeditum quam pontificalis infulae auctoritate decoratum sub silentii latibulo delitescere non feram, cuius vita adeo signis et prodigiis miraculorum coruscantibus clarauit, ut contra rerum naturam liquentis elementi qualitatem soli Deo mutabilem orationum armatura fretus in aliud genus converteret [...]

'Furthermore, I shall not allow NARCISSUS of blessed memory – at once enriched with the prerogative of virginal purity and adorned with the authority of episcopal insignia – to lurk in the recesses of silence; (Narcissus), whose life was distinguished with signs and resplendent portents of miracles to such an extent that, relying on the armament of his prayers, contrary to the nature of things he converted the quality of the liquid element – mutable to God alone – into another form [...]'

Ehwald 1919, 270-71. Translation: Lapidge and Herren 1979, 91-2.